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Definition of "seesawing" []

  • Present participle of seesaw. (verb)
  • A rising and falling, like that of a seesaw. (noun)

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Use "seesawing" in a sentence
  • "Thank God the American people realize that we can’t afford this kind of seesawing in response to the day to day changes in the war."
  • "Stocks headed firmly south after seesawing between small gains and losses in midday trade, when numbers showed that the U.S. economy grew 2.8% in the final three months of 2011, missing analysts' expectations."
  • "Financial stocks are seesawing with the ever-changing news over Europe's bailout status, as investors wonder about how to play off U.S. banks' exposure to their euro-zone cohorts, David Reilly reports on Markets Hub."
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